Hosted build on VSO with Azure SDK 2.8 fails

Question

We recently updated our Azure SDK to 2.8. Now when building our solution on VSO hosted build we get build errors.

The imported project "C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v14.0\Windows Azure Tools\ 2.8\Microsoft.WindowsAzure.targets" was not found.
Confirm that the path in the <Import> declaration is correct, and that the file exists on disk.

I've found another one with similar issues with a question posted on MSDN but without any answers. Support for Azure SDK 2.8 in hosted build

Anyone know how to get around this issue? Do we have to downgrade?

Answer 1

We are working on the update now. Azure 2.8 should be on the build machines week of Nov. 30.

Update: We ran into a couple of issues and still hope to have this completed this week, but it may slip into next week.

Update Dec. 17: We finally got the updated image with Azure 2.8 into production yesterday. Sorry for the long delay.

Answer 2

The latest Azure SDK supported on Hosted build is 2.7. Refer to Hosted build controller for details.

To build your solution, you'd either downgrade Azure SDK version to 2.7 or deploy your own build agent and install Azure SDK 2.8 on it.